Alan Shearer congratulates Harry Kane on breaking his record

In a year which Spurs almost ended a 56-year wait to become league champions, Kane finished 2017 on 39 Premier League goals, which saw him comfortably surpass the previous calendar year record which had been held by his idol Alan Shearer, who managed 36 across 1995.

His hat-trick in Sunday's 3-0 win at Burnley saw him draw level with Alan Shearer, who notched 36 goals Premier League goals for Blackburn in 1995.

Tottenham have collected 13 points from their last five Premier League games to hoist themselves up to fifth place in the table. It also capped another late surge to personal glory after he scored seven goals in the final two games of last season to beat Romelu Lukaku to the Golden Boot.

Paul Merson has admitted that he can't see anything other than a comfortable Tottenham Hotspur win against Southampton on Boxing Day at Wembley.

Kane's 56 goals in 2017 have arrived in just 52 appearances, set against 54 in 64 for Barcelona superstar Messi.

And it's two more than Teddy Sheringham, who Kane (96) is now one behind in terms of most Premier League goals for Spurs.

"He deserves everything. It's been nine years between [Cristiano] Ronaldo and [Lionel] Messi, and now Kane's name is there". "To get another hat-trick is a great way to end the year". When he topped last season's goal standings with 29 in 30 games, his scoring rate of 0.97 was the highest achieved by any Golden Boot victor in the league's 25-year history. Alli now has four assists and a goal in two games and looks back to his best, while Eriksen was the architect of the hosts' best moves.

"They are fantastic players here". Van Dijk, who was left out of the squad for the third game running, was sorely missed and surely Spurs would not have found it so easy if the Manchester City and Chelsea target had been marshalling the defence instead of Wesley Hoedt and Maya Yoshida. Saints did the opposite, backing off Son, Alli and Eriksen naively and allowing Spurs to pick them off at will.

It only seemed to be going one way for Pelligrino's men as they came out for the second period, but they were inches away from finding an avenue back into the contest as Lemina curled a great effort from outside the area but was denied by the crossbar.

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